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Door Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
- Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at…
- If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get…
- This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
More Door Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door? — Tyra Banks
- I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of… — Drew Barrymore
- Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. — John Barrymore
- I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali
- In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,… — Bob Beauprez
- When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do… — Alexander Graham Bell
- Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell
- Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. — Saul Bellow
- We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a… — Robert Benchley
- Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger